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Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. With our Savior, internal purity is everything. Paley.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton.

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion. So many guests invite as here are writ. Shak. I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this. Carlyle.

An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton.

In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak.

their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. Dryden. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. Pope. Its self. See Itself.

ue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue. -- Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. -- To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. [Colloq.]

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.

or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Shak.

A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. [Scot.] Kail yard, a kitchen garden. [Scot.]

To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.

Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

hrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillæ of insects.